About jrpopartz / JR Williams

Original art, prints, commissions...email me! Or, browse/buy original work through my page at the Comic Art Collective (link below).

AKA "jrwilliams57". Visual artist: Painter, Illustrator, Comics artist, Animator, Sculptor, Designer, Storyboard artist. Electronic/Experimental/Avant Garde music fan. Jungian. Entheogen enthusiast. Universal Life Church minister.

Comics industry pro since 1985; animation professional since '88. At one time or another I've worked for or been associated with: Fantagraphics Books, Will Vinton Studios (Claymation™), WEIRDO magazine (Last Gasp pub.-editors: R. Crumb, Peter Bagge, Aline Kominsky-Crumb), COOL & STRANGE MUSIC magazine, Roger Corman's Cosmic Comics, HEAVY METAL magazine, The Disney Channel, Duplex Planet Illustrated, Real Stuff, FILM THREAT magazine, The PJs (FOX network), Gary & Mike (UPN/MTV), Chel White Productions, Loompanics, Tower Records' PULSE! magazine, Bent Image Labs, WFMU radio, and more...

Gallery shows and traveling exhibitions include: "Misfit Lit" (Seattle/New York/Los Angeles/etc.), "Miniatures" (Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland), "Primal Abstractions" (Backspace Gallery, Portland), "The Casual Casual Cultural Exchange" (Toronto, Montreal, Paris, Tokyo), "Divine Messages" (Harmony Gallery, Los Angeles)...